Vijendra Raj Apsingekar
Director, AI Research Engineering @ Samsung Research America (SRA)
About
Proven leadership record in both productization and research. Ph.D. in Digital Signal Processing. Responsible for building AI Conversation engine using latest trends in AI/ML domain such as LLMs. 14+ years of experience in Research, Development and design for Speech and Natural Language Processing applications. Including Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Semantic similarity engine, Sentence embeddings, Text-To-Speech (TTS), Speech enhancement, Trigger word detector, and Speaker Recognition technologies for consumer electronics and server products. Designed LLMs based personalized and multi-turn conversation engine. Also have an extensive knowledge on latest trends in speech and natural language understanding techniques. Developing new algorithms for efficient Speech/speaker recognition systems, speech enhancement and speech coding applications for both server and on-device deployments. Specialties: - ASR, NLP, Digital Speech Processing - Python, Putorch, C and C++ programing
United States
San Francisco Bay Area
Consumer Electronics
Matlab, Image Processing, DSP, Embedded Systems, FPGA, Digital Signal Processors, Wireless, Digital Signal Processing, Signal Processing, Microcontrollers, VHDL, Processors, C, C++, Verilog, RTOS, Debugging, Programming, Linux, Embedded Software
Experience
Director, AI Research Engineering
Samsung Research America (SRA)
Mountain View, California, United States
Responsible for maintaining high performance of various speech modules and speech engines in production. Developing new platform and architecture for deployment on edge devices. Identifying new technology growth areas that can give edge for Samsung devices
Application Architect, Sr. Staff Manager
Samsung Research America (SRA)
Mountain View
Research and Development of Bixby speech engine Developed new and novel speech architectures Research on new platforms that can bring efficient and effective training strategies while keeping high accuracies on the various speech features supported on Samsung devices
Speech Scientist
Jibo
Redwood City
Building and Integrating Speaker Recognition system on JIBOs development platform Building and Integrating Text-To-Speech synthesis system on JIBOs development platform Building acoustic models for TTS and developing efficient vocoding techniques for TTS synthesis
Senior Engineer
Qualcomm
Greater San Diego Area
Develop Qualcomm's Hexagon DSP applications Help Qualcomm customers port their proprietary code on to Hexagon DSP Debug and Triage DSP firmware code and contribute for system stability Wake-up word detection and speaker protection algorithms
Engineer II (System Integration and Customer Engineering)
Qualcomm
Working on DSP projects for System integration. Debug existing codes using Trace32 debugger and add new codes/features for future mobile sets.
Senior DSP Engineer
Magna International
Developed Algorithms and protocol of efficient low power transmission of messages between DSP processor (TMS320F2812) and a auxiliary PIC (18-MCU) processor. Multi-Channel Buffered Serial Port (McBSP) device driver for TI-TMS320F2812 processor was written and other board support drivers were implemented. Implemented SPI communication between both the processors.
Post Doctorate
New Mexico State University
Worked on Music artist identification. Detection of musical tones and harmonics for better identification of artist under background music conditions.
Research Assistant
New Mexico State University
Worked on various Speaker Identification and Verification systems. Developed Speech recognition systems on Linux based environment using HMM toolkit. Submitted two journal papers and over 10 conference papers in major journals and conference proceedings.
Education
New Mexico State University
Electrical Engineer
Developed Efficient Speaker Recognition system using speaker model clusters, and applied the same concepts to Speech recognition systems
Texas A&M University-Kingsville
Texas A&M University
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Electrical and Communication Engineer
Did Bachelors of Technology at JNTU
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